systematic-debugging

systematic-debugging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NeuroAIHub/BrainPilot. It costs 21 tokens per session (2,183 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A step-by-step method for investigating bugs, failed tests, and unexpected program behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate failures, reproduce problems, collect evidence, and identify what needs changing.
Why use it?
It helps find the underlying cause before changes are proposed, reducing guesswork and repeated fixes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to investigate failures, reproduce problems, collect evidence, and identify what needs changing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neuroaihub/brainpilot/systematic-debugging
About the project

BrainPilot is an open-source, human-supervised agent system for brain science that uses specialized agents, knowledge, skills, and tools to support research work. Researchers use it to review literature, plan studies, perform analyses, write reports, and check scientific claims. Its catalogue entries are skills and an MCP integration that extend or operate the BrainPilot research workflow.

NeuroAIHub/BrainPilot · 1,064 stars · on GitHub · brainpilot.chat

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add NeuroAIHub/BrainPilot --skill systematic-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NeuroAIHub/BrainPilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,183 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 98
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 99
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.02183
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00873
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00437
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00218

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 808fc5717aa8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

systematic-debugging scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (condition-based-waiting-example.ts, find-polluter.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

packages/backend-core/plugins/superpowers/6.2.0/skills/systematic-debugging/SKILL.md · 284 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

10 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 284 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 808fc5717aa8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

systematic-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository NeuroAIHub/BrainPilot (1,064 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 2,183 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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